Shabby Chic Banner

Hello Friends!

So glad you are here today!

This week I am Guest Designing for the Crafting by Designs blog for their July Challenge - Anything Goes.

I made a shabby chic burlap banner, very different from my style. 

Hope you all like it!

The ornate chipboard letters are sprayed with gold alcohol splash

Sharing this at - 

Cookie-challenge-72 (inspired by the colors & the burlap pattern on the cookie) - 12.7 

Crafty Calendar Challenge - 28.7

Crafty- Catz#378 - 13.7

Emerald City Crafts Challenge#1 - 28.7

Thats Crafty Challenge - 20.7

Loads of products used here are from Itsy Bitsy

Burlap Stack - Natural

ORNATE ALPHA CHIPBOARD

Handmade flowers

Gold alcohol splash

Sizzix Banner Die

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Shaker - Chipboard album

Good Morning!

I am at the ITSY BITSY blog with a fun chipboard shaker mini album. For details visit the blogpost here.

In my DT kit was a chipboard album the cover of which was a delicate moroccan laser cut pattern. 

I loved this & wanted to keep the cover simple & just highlight the pattern. Colored the cover with black acrylic paint & added a glitter glue , but this seemed to plain. To add some interest I made this into a shaker! Fun isn't it! 

 

The album comes with six chipboard sheets for the inner pages all bound together with ring binders.

I have edged all the pages with black paint & used the Maggie Holmes paper stack to decorate the pages. Heat embossed some inspiring words & sentiments from various stamp sets & used these to embellish the photo mats.

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Altered Bottle

Hello friends & a happy November to you all!

Sharing a project I made for the Swap group in my city (Bangalore). The theme set by Sonia for this round was to alter a bottle. I had never done this earlier & was a bit hesitant! I coated the bottle (courtesy - Rupa) with gesso & left it on my table for days until 2 days before the swap!

Played around with Lindy's Sprays (Tiffany Blue, Blue Hawaiian Blue, Jack in the pulpit teal), distress paint (trnished brass), Inka gold (old gold) some die cuts & embellishments to decorate the bottle. And trust me it was so much fun................I already have several wine bottles coated with gesso! So watch out this space for some more!

 

Used Inka Gold for the golden hue on the embossed logo, the MDF frame & the cap.  Loved the texture!

 Some more close ups -

 

Let me confess it was hard to part with this for the swap!!!!

Playing this at - 

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge (4/11)
Crafty Catz Challenge#253 (5/11)
Frosted designs (4/11) (TOP 3)
Imagination-crafts challenges(30/11)
Altered eclectics (30/11)
Cards galore challenges (30/11)
Rhedds creative spirit (30/11)
Party time tuesdays#187 (2/11)
Avenue613#95  (1/11) - TOP 3
My time to craft#265 
TTCRD
As you like it Challenge (the soft shimmer & colors make this so elegant, so definitely my style here is elegant) (5/11)
Divas by design challenge
Not just cards#5
Pennys challenge#201
4 crafty chicks (4/11)
DL art  (30/11)
We dodoobadoo#18 (WINNER)
Scribble and scrap crafts#30 (7/11)
Moo-mania - Charms, chain & metallic gold (4/11)

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Altered Book Box

Welcome back friends!

Another altered project today - a book box, the first one I made.

When I selected the DCWV Mariposa pattern paper for this box I was totally lost with regards to the embellishments that will go along with this!!!But I challenged myself! And the result............I think is totally adorable!

To highlight the chipboard laser cut from Itsy Bitsy I used white UTEE over it. This also added some dimension to make it stand out amongst the flowers. Used a large vintage key along with some dangling charms as a faux knob.

This is the spine of the book - colored the ornate chipboard letter with marker & embossed using clear EP. 

Sharing this at -

Sparkles forum challenge#60 (12/10)

The sisters of craft-october (31/10)

Craft creations (11/10)

Not just cards challenge#3 (12/10)

Imagination crafts challenge-october (31/10)

Dream valley challenge#92 (16/10)

Artistic inspirations challenge#112 (12/10)

Glitter n sparkle challenge#105  (10/10)

Avenue613#92 (11/10)

Craft my life#octobernovember (TOP 3)

TTCRD#October (13/10)

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Altered Notebook

Hello friends.

Want to share with you all an altered notebook I made for a recent swap. You can view another altered book made by me here.

This was a hard bound book which I covered with some coordinating pattern papers. Colored the chipboard cutout with markers & coated with glossy accents. Love the perfect finish the metal corners render to the book.

A handmade bloom with mulberry flowers in the same shade highlights the distressed doily.

This is the back covered with this absolutely fantastic paper designed by Divya of Yelling Yellow.

You will find this linked to -

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.in/2014/08/we-have-new-sponsor.html (stash items chipboard cut out & the metal corners)

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-270-dig-deep-use-something.html (stash items chipboard cut out & the metal corners) - WINNER

http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-25.html

http://hobbybookdesignerchallenge.blogspot.in/2014/08/2-or-more-designer-paper-challenge.html

http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-46-winner-44.html

http://ttcrd.blogspot.in/2014/08/through-craftroom-door-challenge-aug19.html

http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-17-anything-goes.html

http://suzypantssmarty.blogspot.in/2014/08/suzy-bees-bloomin-challenge-43-anything.html

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/new-challenge.html

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/august-challenge-guest-designer-call.html?m=1

http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-76-spring-or-autumn.html

http://avenue613.blogspot.ca/2014/08/challenge-86-anything-goes-woptional.html

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Bird Cage Luminary

Welcome friends!!!!

Thank you so much to all who commented & my FB page on the previous post KNOWING ME.

A DIY luminary withTim Holtz caged bird die cuts is what I share today. I loved the outcome...................beautiful!

I started by inking the die cuts with distress inks (squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade, picked raspberry). I then stamped the newsprint over it with black archival ink followed by a medium coat of clear rock candy crackle paint. Vellum was then glued on the inner side of the cages. All the four die cuts were then glued to a chipboard base. Finally embellishments.............and I had this wonder, a luminary!

The chipboard bird colored with distress inks & coated with clear UTEE. Don't miss the HOME resin embellie & the cute charm.

Do you see the LSG shimmer over the pink flowers?

Look at that crackled effect!!!

And here it is with a tea light.............now won't this be a unique home decor item?

Supplies used - 

Dies - Tim Holtz alterations  caged bird, Cheery Lynn designs

Stamps - Impression Obsession CAC newsprint

LSG - Cotton candy pink

Distress crackle paint - clear rock candy

Distress inks - squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade, picked raspberry, vintage photo & black soot

Vellum - locally purchased

All other embellishments -  stash

Linking this to - 

http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/2014/07/bgc55-welcome-home.html

http://www.lulupu.blogspot.in/2014/07/lulupu-challenge-35-go-3d.html

http://tando-creative-challenges.blogspot.in/2014/07/new-month-and-junes-winner.html

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=1767

http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.in/2014/07/anything-goes-in-cre8time-for-week-one.html

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A GIFT BOX

Good Evening & a happy weekend to you all! 

Very pleased to share a upcycled project today, made keeping in mind a few challenges. Take a look at this gorgeous gift box...........

I find myself creating only in monochromes these days (hope I get over it soon!). Any guesses what is recycled here? Well I leave you with the snapshots first & will reveal it only later, am sure you can guess by then. I love stick pins & in this one I have a cute birdie perched atop the pin.

The crochet flower is handmade by my mom, she made many while she was here. 

The sides are chipboard pieces distressed with stormy sky ink & layered with die cuts. Glued  embellished wooden clothes pins on both the sides. This one holds a mini Bo Bunny envelope from the Noteworthy collection. Isn't it perfect to hold a cute little message for the recipient?

Making the closure for this was the toughest part! I think now that it is open you all know what this is!

Yes it was a pringles can, inspired by a pin on pinterest. This is how I went about with the upcycling

Linking this to -

LESSology#34- WINNER 

Shabby Tea Room#209

Lulupu#27 (lace, layers, chipboard, pringles can, pearls, pattern paper, clothes pin, corrugated paper in the sticker)

Altered Eclectics

Inky Chicks#24

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